The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.

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In these moments of settling, you might feel the breath and feel the breath in the area

of the heart as if you could breathe in and out of the heart.

Just bring a listening attention to your listening to and feeling the area of the heart.

Fencing your mood, sensing whatever emotion is here.

And, under that, sensing what your longing is, what your deep intention is for meditation,

for stepping on a path of awakening.

What brings you to practice?

What do you really care about?

It's really what most matters to you.

In this delness, again, since your body is sitting here breathing, and notice what might

want to let go right now.

What might want to soften?

And then deepening the attention to the breath, extending or lengthening the in-breath now.

So it's a long, full in-breath.

And then a slow out breath, matching the length of the in-breath, inhaling deeply, filling

the lungs.

And a slow out breath, slow enough so you can feel the sensations of the breath, leaving

the nostrils, continuing with a long deep in-breath.

You might count to five.

And without pausing, the out-breath, again, matched counting to five.

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